Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-07
A FATAL ACCIDENT.
One Man Killed and Six Injured.

A FATAL ACCIDENT.
One Man Killed and Six Injured.
AN OVERLOADED scAFFoLD GIVES WAY AND PRE-
cIPITATEs CONTRACTOR AND SIX woRKMEN TO
THE GROUND.
This morning, about quarter before 10 O'Clock,
fatal accident occurred in East Washington, by
Which one man was killed and six others were
Verely injured. The accident occurred near the
corner OF 18th and streets southeast where a
stone warehouse for cold storage is being erected
Dy MI. Jas. Mcknight, contractor for Mr.. Wilbert
Clary, the commission merchant on Louisiana ave-
nue.. The building is being erected beside the Bal
timore and Potomac Railroad near Eastern Branch.
The scahold running the entire length OF the build
Ing was covered with heavy stone weighing several
IONS, CnlS morning. Five StonemaSonS and Mr..
Mcknight went upon 1t, and were about to begin
the days work when the framework gave way,
and they all fell with the stone and timber dis
tance OF thirteen feet to the ground. Word was
sent TO the police station and ambulances, patrol
wagons, and physicians were soon at the scene OF
the accident. The first to arrive were Drs. Bayne
and Frederick. They relieved the Injured men as
far as possible. Chief Clerk McLinn and Dr. Poole,
OF the health office, went to the scene OF the acci
when they arrived the wounded men had been
placed in the ambulance and patrol wagon To be
taken home
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED
John Clarke, one OF the stonemasons, had his
skull crushed by falling stone and he died almost
instantly. He was about sixty years OF age, and
lives at the corner OF 7th and streets southwest
Mr.. Mcknight, the contractor, had his head
bruised and cut and was badly shaken up. He
east.
John Hogan stonemason, who lives near
where the accident occurred had his back injured,
but not seriously
Thos. Chapman, a stonemason. received severe
wounds about the back and hips and had his head
JAS Murray, laborer, who was beneath the
Scanold when 1t fell, sustained serious injuries.
he lVes at No. I'LL Georgia avenue southeast.
WIN. Lannahan, ST., and VIM. Lannahan. jr.,
stonemasons, were slightly injured. They reside
at NO. SOl I'd street southwest.
After the accident occurred the injured work.
men were taken to the workshops on top OF the
MI, where the physicians did what they could to
relieve them, and they were removed to their
MONIES In the patrol wagon and ambulance.
WHAT CONTRACTOR M'SIGHT SAYS.
MI. Mcknight, the contractor, was seen by
STAR reporter after the accident occurred. He was
found sitting In the workshop. His head was
badly bruised, and he seemed to be suffering from
sick stomach. The physician who attended him
said that 1t was impossible for him to tell how
badly Mr.. Mcknight was injured Mr. Mcknight
said that the accident was caused by the scaffold
being overloaded with stone. He said that after
the laborerS had carried some stone to the Scaf-
fold he told them there was enough weight ON 1t,
and ordered them not to put any more weight on
1t at that time. He then went away and when he
returned he found that the laborers had put up
more stone, and he thought the scaffold was over
loaded. He again ordered them to STOP which
they did, and few minutes later he went upon
the Scaffold with the maSonS to begin work and
had just begun when the scaffold gave way.
An Old Pension Syyindler Captured.
ARRESTED FOR PERsONATING THE MOTHER OF DEAD
SOLDIER.
The story OF a peculiar pension swindle has just
been completed in Indianapolis. During the late
war young man named Jas. c. Jones left his
home In Gibson County, Tenn, and went to Mat
toOn, H., where he enlisted as a private in
Company G, 62d Illinois Infantry. His regiment
was ordered to Arkansas and while in that state
young Jones contracted typhoid fever, and was
sent TO hospital at Pine Bluff, where he died In
the spring OF 1865. In 1869 claim for pension
was filed In the Pension Bureau by woman named
Mary Jones, OF Paradise, Ill, who alleged that JAS
c. Jones was her son. and that she was dependent
upon him for support at the date OF his enlistment
Many af1idavits were filed In support OF the claim
which was subsequently allowed and paid in 1872,
the first payment amounting to over four hundred
dollars. For some reason Mrs. Mary Jones only
drew her pension for one quarter after its allow
ance, and her name was dropped from the pension
rollS In 1878.
MARY JONES AND SARAH JONES'
In May, 1883, she applied for restoration to the
pension-rolls and demanded the amount OF accrued
pension from 1872 to date. Unfortunately for the
alleged Mary Jones, another claimant appeared
upon the scene, who alleged that she was the
mother OF James c. jones' formerly a private in
ss sara oa ones snd har ysds aha eaG s1 ns
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Gibson County, Tenn. The matter was placed in
the hands OF Special Agent Jacobs. of the Pension
Bureau, who visited Paradise, but failed to find
Mary Jones there or any one who knew such a
person in the vtctnage. Dyer, Tenn, was next
visited by the special agent and Mrs. Sarah Jones
was found; she gave full account OF her son
James c. Jones, for such he really was, and pro-
duced ample evidence OF her identity and title to
pension.
SEARCHING FOR THE swINDLER.
Suspicion fell on Jno H. McQuoin as the insti-
gator OF the claim OF Mary Jones, and a search
was begun for him; his relatives were visited,
and they reported him dead, and others said that
he had emigrated TO Kansas. The address Of
Mary Jones, in her application for restoration was
given as Salem, Washington County, Ind, in care
OF Geo. 2. Harris, but Investigation showed that
| neither Mary Jones nor Geo. z. Harris was known
| in Salem. 1t was learned, however, that doctor
McCown, OF Hitchcock, Ind, had presented an
order TO the Salem postmaster for mail directed to
Mary Jones, In care OF Geo. T. Harris claiming
that the latter was his nephew. Hitchcock was
| then visited and the fact developed that DR.. Nc
e. so the
Jones" and the "Geo. z. Harris in the case, as
! both those persons proved to be myths. Why he
| ceased to draw the pension after 1872 was mys-
terry, and 10 solve that question his history was
hunted up, when it Was discovered that in the fall
OF 1872 he had been arrested for extensive pension
81, 500 bail, which he forfeited, and caused the
story to be circulated that he had died in Kansas
In May, 1856, McQuOin was indicted in the United
States Court at Indianapolis and when the officers
went to arrest him he had fed.
CAUGHT AT LAST.
On Friday last he was located at Hopedale
Tazewen County, Ill, where he was arrested and
taken TO Chicago.
District Government Affairs.
BUILDING PERMITS
have been issued by Inspector Entwisle sfollows
Edward WoltZ, to erect five brick dwellings, num-
bered 42S to 4,6 5th street northeast; So OOO j.
II. De Atley, 20 erect brick saloon, numbered 1920
and 1:ss,2 Pennsylvania avenue northwest; So OOO
John Boyd, to erect brick dwelling, numbered
1417 Rhode Island avenue northwest; s11 ,OOO E.
H. Harner, to erect two frame dwellings Wilson
street, between Sd and 4th streets extended;
81, 900. w. C. Whitmore, to erect brick dwelling
numbered 1902 18th Street northwest; $4,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Gen. Green B. Raum has given notice to the Dis
trict Commissioners that he will file O bill in
equity to assert his title to the west feet OF lot
In Keetmaller'S division OF square 292 near 18th
missiOners from interfering with his rights in the
premises.